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Heritage Daily
Silica-rich magmas like those in the Yellowstone region and along the western margin of North and South America can erupt violently and explosively, throwing vast quantities of ash into the air, followed by slower flows of glassy, viscous magma. But what do the subterranean magma chambers look like, and where does the magma originate? Those questions can't be answered directly at modern, active volcanoes.
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Live Science
What was thought to be an underwater, lost city is actually a naturally occurring geological phenomenon. Pipe-like, disc and doughnut-shaped structures discovered by underwater divers near the island of Zakynthos, Greece, were originally believed to be ruins of an ancient city, such as remnants of paved floors, courtyards and columns. Now researchers have found that the "ruins" are in fact geological formations.
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Scientific American
Geologists in New Zealand have discovered a magma chamber being born in a surprising place — not under the country's most active volcanoes, but off to one side. The finding suggests that molten rock can accumulate underground in complex and unexpected patterns, but does not indicate that an eruption is imminent.
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AIPG
The AIPG Georgia Section Newsletter — May 2016
The AIPG Alaska Section Newsletter — Spring 2016
The AIPG Michigan Section Newsletter — May 2016
The AIPG Texas Section Newsletter — May 2016
The Geological Society
Explore your career pathway at the new website from The Geological Society.
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AIPG
The AIPG quarterly journal, The Professional Geologist, April/May/June 2016 issue is available online in pdf and digital version (active links and pages flip like paper copy). This issue includes: AIPG National Conference information; Tales from the Field — Light at the End of the Tunnel; AIPG National Officer Ballot; The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceaus Strata in Western Staten Island, New York; Our Saves Count Also; Geothermal Energy-Current Status and Future Possibilities; The Reading Geologist — Book Reviews; and much more — now available online. All back issues of TPG are available online.
AIPG
The purpose of the AIPG Student Chapter of the Year Award is to recognize the most outstanding student chapter for their participation in, and contribution to, the American Institute of Professional Geologists. The award will consist of a plaque to be presented to the student chapter, a certificate to each of the officers of the chapter at the time of their submittal, a $500 award for the chapter, and a trip for one member of the winning student chapter to the annual AIPG conference and executive meetings. The student that attends the annual meeting will observe the organization and functions of AIPG and participate in the executive board meeting.
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| Date |
Event |
More Information |
| June 14-15 |
6th Annual AIPG Michigan Section Technical Workshop — Environmental Risk Management: Why, When, Where and How |
Roscommon County, Michigan |
| June 25 |
AIPG Executive Committee Meeting |
Thornton, Colorado |
| Aug. 8-11 |
NCSL Legislative Summit |
Chicago |
| Aug. 17-18 |
17th Annual Energy Exposition |
Loveland, Colorado |
| Aug. 22-25 |
Rocky Mountain Energy Summit |
Denver |
| Aug. 27-Sept. 4 |
35th International Geological Congress |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Sept. 10-13 |
AIPG 2016 National Conference |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Sept. 18-24 |
Association of Environmental &
Engineering Geologists 2016 Annual Meeting |
Kona, Hawaii |
| Sept. 25-28 |
GSA National Conference |
Denver |
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AIPG
AIPG's baseball cap has a velcro enclosure and embroidered lettering. Available colors: black, royal blue, tan, white and navy.
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AIPG
The AIPG adult beefy-T is preshrunk to keep its shape and crafted from 100 percent ring-spun cotton for a soft hand with excellent durability. It includes embroidered AIPG lettering with pick and gavel. Available colors: aquatic blue, ash, black, Carolina blue, charcoal heather, daffodil yellow, dark chocolate, deep forest, deep navy, deep red, deep royal, denim blue, gold, kelly green, light blue, light steel, lime, maroon, natural, navy, orange, Oxford gray, pebble, pink, purple, sand, smoke gray, stone-washed green, teal, white and yellow. Available in sizes Small-3XL.
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AIPG
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Science World Report
New reports showed that deep inside the moon is a smattering amount of water, and it arrived during its early history with the help of asteroids plunging into its magma. How and when water arrived in the moon's volcanic lunar locks has been a question for most scientists, but the international team of scientists studying the satellite said that the icy, early asteroids are the most likely source of the water.
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Phys.org
Nepali soldiers have kicked off efforts to partially drain a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, fearing possible flooding that could threaten the lives of thousands, an army official said on June 3. Imja Tsho, located at an altitude of 5,010 meters (16,437 feet), just 10 kilometers (six miles) south of the world's highest peak, is the fastest-growing glacial lake in Nepal. The surface area covered by the lake expanded from 0.4 to 1.01 square kilometres between 1984 and 2009, triggering concerns that it may breach its banks and flood villages downstream.
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Popular Science
Almost a year after the New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by the dwarf planet, we're still learning amazing new things about Pluto. In two papers published this week in Nature, researchers announced that they had an explanation for the strange polygonal shapes that showed up in close-up images of Pluto's surface. The odd block-like shapes (6-24 miles across) may have been caused by convection inside a roiling layer of nitrogen ice.
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E&P
Dry holes are usually disappointments. But the first dry hole in the Lower Tertiary part of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico turned out to be anything but disappointing. The well was drilled in 1996 by Texaco and partners Shell, Amoco Corp. and Mobil Corp. The four companies had a group of blocks that had been idle for about 10 years, and they were excited by the structures they were seeing on the seismic data. But the water depth — 2,324 meters — was daunting at the time, and the risk of not finding oil-bearing sands was quite real.
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The Washington Post
The forces affecting the ice in West Antarctica are an area of urgent focus for climate scientists who are all too aware of the ice sheet's huge potential contributions to global sea-level rise. A great deal of this attention has centered on a specific region bordering the Amundsen Sea, south of the Antarctic Peninsula, where research has suggested that a set of rapidly retreating glaciers — including the famous Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers — may be increasingly vulnerable to collapse.
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University of Hawaii
On March 11, 2011, following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, several reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered damage and released radioactive chemicals into the atmosphere and contaminated wastewater into the nearby Pacific Ocean. Hannah Azouz and Trista McKenzie, two recent graduates from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology bachelor of science in geology program, assessed the extent to which the soil of Hawaii and locally purchased fish have been impacted by radioactivity from this event.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
A U.S. National Park Service paleontologist and Grateful Dead fan credited with identifying an extinct species of otter found in south-central Idaho has named it after the band's guitarist. Self-described Deadhead Kari Prassack says traveling the country to see Bob Weir and the band gave her the sense of adventure and confidence to pursue her career.
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